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What I'm reading: an open policy model, Xbox's adult checks, Discord in Brazil and KOSA

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Few T&S things I'm reading today:

- Musubi released PolicyLM-1.7B, an open-weights moderation model that takes your written policy and returns a decision in under 50ms. We've already added it to the Policy Stress Test on T&S Workbench so you can test your own policies against it.

https://lnkd.in/eYcbF7ri

- Xbox is emailing longtime users saying it has marked their accounts as verified adults based on account history alone. Big age assurance move, and nobody is ever going to appeal being called an adult.

https://lnkd.in/eRRaQPEM

- A Brazilian judge ordered Discord to strengthen its parental controls and age verification after a teen's death. The government's ~$100M lawsuit is still pending.

https://lnkd.in/emw3msrA

- UK MP Jess Asato, who is suing xAI over Grok deepfakes, told the NYC Council it's a design flaw, not user misuse.

https://lnkd.in/e82Ht4x8

- KOSA is stuck again. Rand Paul blocked unanimous consent, and the House and Senate versions still have to be reconciled before Jan 3.

https://lnkd.in/e98KCQHX

What's on your radar this week? Usually post this once a week but so much going on and the industry is moving so quickly now

#TrustAndSafety #OnlineSafety #AgeAssurance #ChildSafety #ContentModeration

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6. Child safety and age assuranceHow do you keep children safe on a product adults use too?
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